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  1. 3 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Anybody wanna try to defend this shit? 
    It’s over fellas. He ain’t fucking leaving regardless of the votes

    No defenders left here except for a few trolls. You may want to post over on Daily Texan which has become the Cloak Room for the right.

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  2. 1 minute ago, Asithappens said:

    There's a lot wrong here, imo. 

    With my example of theater (since that is a poorly paid job) - it's not a profession. If you want to talk professions then by definition we're no longer in the dog-shit paying job sector. Business, law, nursing, medicine, dentistry, etc. Are there problems here? Yes. But it's not theater.

    And no, one need not take out hefty loans for all majors. Go to a juco for the first two years. Get a work/work-study job. Go to a less expensive school. 
     

    Again, you just can't stop stupid people from doing stupid things. This does not apply to all student with loans. It does apply to theater/tv/radio/film majors who racked up massive debt. And that was my peeve with the NPR piece. They didn't address the majors/jobs aspect at all. Poor journalism, imo. 

    I thought you wanted to have a discussion about the current state of student loans, not limited to the theater arts. But yes, if that is all we are discussing, then I would agree that it's irresponsible to take out major loans for a theater major. 

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  3. 29 minutes ago, Asithappens said:

    Well, my focus was on majors that, imo, had a less-than-average market wage. 

    Lawyers? Seriously? Unless you're going to a top, top tier school it's not worth it if you have to take out loans. Probably not worth it even if you don't have to take out loans. 

    Social worker? Really? I think my point stands. Don't go into $100k debt to be a social worker. 

    Accountant? The pay for accountants is better than average, so.... 

    I mean, i just picked a few professions at random. The point is, almost every professional job requires at least one degree. Colleges and universities now charge exorbitant rates for that. Unless you are independently wealthy, you are going to have to take out hefty loans.  Not sure the advice of "well, the world needs plumbers too" is feasible for America's youth. 

    Regardless of how you feel about these idiot students (and you've made it clear how you feel) there is an entire generation (with another on the horizon about to join their fate) that has no savings and is essentially locked out of the housing market due to student loans. What does that portend long term? What are the economic ramifications of a generation of Americans sitting on the sideline?

    edit: full disclosure: I am currently in year 6 of the PSLF plan. We'll see if that is still around in 4 years. I have paid roughly $50k in loan payments in the last 6 years. 

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  4. 3 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/a-heated-oxford-education-11580680180
     

    When most people think of Oxford, what comes to mind are images of bright minds debating quantum physics or the existence of God. But even the brainiest sometimes need a lesson in common sense.

     

    That’s exactly what the bursar at St. John’s College—the most richly endowed college at Oxford—delivered when he responded to students occupying his 15th-century quadrangle and refusing to leave until the college divested its oil-company shares. The students want the college to sell the more than $10 million of its endowment now invested in Shell and BP, and they want it now.

    The Times of London reports that bursar Andrew Parker made them a counteroffer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.” 

    The idea that the students themselves make a fossil-fuel sacrifice did not go over well. One protest organizer complained that Mr. Parker was being flippant, noting that “it’s January and it would be borderline dangerous to shut off the central heating.” Another suggested Mr. Parker was being provocative. 

    Again the bursar responded with wisdom: “You are right that I am being provocative but I am provoking some clear thinking, I hope. It is all too easy to request others to do things that carry no personal cost to yourself. The question is whether you and others are prepared to make personal sacrifices to achieve the goals of environmental improvement (which I support as a goal).”

    imagine reading this and thinking the bursar is making a good point.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    Great insight to the video

    Here's some insight for you. The guy behind those videos has a BA in economics from Dennison and a JD from some TTTT law school. He has zero science background. HIS description of the video you posted is "Video response to terroristic actions taken by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis."

    fuck off zavala. stop educating yourself on youtube videos. 

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  6. 14 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

    Yahoo Sports featured arguably the dumbest article ever today.

    Author's argument was basically that the Astros hiring Click is unfair to Rays,  especially this close to Spring Training. Further, that we should have hired somebody who wasn't important to another team, b/c it transfers some of the negative effects of our punishment to another organization.

    I don't even want to link it here.

    Yeah, this was a common refrain on /r/baseball yesterday. How unfair that the astros were able to hire someone from another team right before spring training. Maybe we should've just promoted the guy who makes ice cream sundaes in mini-batting helmets?

  7. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/02/republicans-are-spreading-voter-fraud-disinformation-in-an-election-theyre-not-even-running-in/

     

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    Conservative groups are trying to peddle conspiracy claims of voter fraud to undermine an election that doesn’t even involve Republicans.

    Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group, put out a report on Monday claiming that “Eight Iowa counties have more voter registrations than citizens old enough to register.”

    Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, who is a pro-voter-ID law conservative, refuted the claim on Twitter and linked to Iowa’s own numbers debunking Judicial Watch’s report. 

     

     

     

  8. 9 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

    What are second amendment zealots thoughts on the President stomping on the first amendment? 

    Does the act upset liberals?

    If yes, no further analysis required.

  9. 56 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    I guess it’s possible Kelly thought Bangladesh was the Ukraine despite her [checks notes] masters in European Studies from Cambridge.

    Yeah, I mean at least go with something plausible like Poland. But then again no one cares about anything anymore so what are ya gonna do.

  10. I generally agree that the rule is fucking stupid and they should let this go, but it is worth noting that the policy prohibits all males from having hair beyond a certain length.  Now, if they are only enforcing it against this kid, then there's a race-specific complaint, but if all males at the school are similarly treated, then this seems like a weak case to elevate as an example of racial bias.

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  11. 40 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

     

    I have an understanding of the reason they do such things (prop 65) but when you interact with thousands of innocuous products every day for which avoiding their use is pretty much impossible, what's the point?  No one's gonna not buy or use a motor vehicle because the lubricant's in it's engine are listed by prop 65.  

    My issue with it is that it causes "boy who cried wolf" syndrome. I see so many of those signs around, that I generally just assume everything is harmless and ignore them.

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  12. Just now, closetojumping said:

    It is an inevitability in threads like this that the California and New York residents are going to show up and tell us how stupid and ignorant we all are about the world with our silly, myopic Texas biases. 

    I don't know anyone capable of owning a house in Texas that isn't fully aware of the disparity in property taxes between our state and what people pay in California. Not one. You pay lower property taxes for various reasons, but the proposition that passed in the 70's that will never be overturned, which locked taxes in at the household value at the time of purchase certainly enables cheap prop taxes into perpetuity. The follow-on proposition years later that also included inherited properties into the provision, even those used as rental income, makes it even better. It also helps with deficits building in the state and one of the worst school systems in the country. But hey, low property taxes!

    Here is an LAT article highlighting how awesome it is for the state overall: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-property-taxes-elites-201808-htmlstory.html

    There is not a scenario you can create in which it is actually cheaper on a relative basis to live in California than it is in Texas. Even in Austin. I love CA and NY. Visit them all the time. Going to Los Angeles in a few weeks, in fact. I'd never live in either place unless I invented some widget that made me a gazillionaire. People trying to build wealth for generations paying higher total taxes, higher housing costs, and higher dollar amounts for most goods and services don't get nearly as far in either place as they do in Texas. You cannot work the math and state otherwise without being completely lost in the concept or completely disingenuous. 

    Holy shit man. Calm down.

    I simply stated that people are often surprised to learn that property taxes in CA are lower than TX.

     

     

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